English collocation studies : the OSTI report /

This is the first published edition of John Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley's research on collocation undertaken in 1970. The unpublished report was circulated amongst a small group of academics and was enormously influential, sparking a growth of interest in collocation amongst research...

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Main Author: Sinclair, John, 1933-2007
Other Authors: Jones, S., Daley, Robert, Krishnamurthy, Ramesh
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2004.
Series:Corpus and discourse. Studies in corpus and discourse.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Interview with John Sinclair / Wolfgang Teubert
  • English lexical studies : report to OSTI on project C/LP/08
  • Sect. 1. Background
  • Sect. 2. Texts
  • Sect. 3. Significant collocation
  • Sect. 4. Frequent words
  • Sect. 5. Collocational patterns of selected lexical items
  • Sect. 6. Identifying lexical items
  • Sect. 7. Discrimination between two texts using strength of collocation as a discriminant.